Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 Breakfast Show has recorded its second lowest audience figures since current records began.

The programme hosted by the DJ shed 600,000 listeners in the first quarter of 2018, new research shows.

He pulled in 5.1 million listeners a week in the first three months of the year, compared with 5.7 million a week in the last quarter of 2017, according to the latest figures from audience research body Rajar.

The quarter-on-quarter drop of 11% is the second largest dip since Grimshaw took over the breakfast show – the largest was between October and December 2012 and January and March 2013, when the audience fell by 14%.

Last year the show plunged to its lowest listening figures since he took over the slot, dropping below five million in the third quarter of 2017, the first time in his five-year tenure.